Gender-Based Violence

CEDAW Shadow Report: Voices, Choices, Participation and Access to Justice: Weaving the Girl Child’s Experience (2023)

The CEDAW Shadow Report: Voices, Choices, Participation and Access to Justice: Weaving the Girl Child’s Experience (2023) highlights the experiences of marginalized girls–indigenous girls, girls with disabilities, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LBT) girls and girls from rural communities–under a continuum of gender-based violence and discrimination, leading to girls’ experiences of Read more

By Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), ago

Online Gender-Based Violence in the Philippines: 2023 Midyear Report

As technology continues to define the landscape of our everyday lives, it may also be used as an instrument to bring forth new forms of gender-based violence (GBV) and exacerbate existing inequalities experienced by and disproportionately affect women and girls. Technology-facilitated GBV is any act that is committed, assisted, aggravated Read more

By Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), ago

Year-end 2022 report: Online Gender-based Violence

Gender-based violence facilitated by new technologies entails human rights violation against women and girls on a daily basis. Since 2012, the Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA) has been observing a growing number of online gender-based violence cases. Online gender-based violence (OGBV) are “harmful acts directed towards an individual or a Read more

By Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), ago

Midyear Report: Online Gender-based Violence in the Philippines (January 1-June 30, 2022)

The internet is one of the most powerful and enabling platforms for opportunity, sharing ideas and building community, but women and other vulnerable groups are too often threatened, silenced and censored because of having courage to speak out. Since 2012, the Foundation for Media Alternatives has been monitoring and documenting Read more

By Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), ago

Online Gender-based Violence in the Philippines: 2021 Year-end Report

The Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA) has been mapping media reports of online gender-based violence (OGBV) in the Philippines since 2012 through the Take Back the Tech! mapping platform. Over the years, these cases have shown trends and emerging manifestations of violence against women and girls that are replicated and Read more

By Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), ago

News Release: Women ‘sound off’ drums to demand for President Duterte’s Accountability in VAW

Leaders and members of the World March of Women-Pilipinas, a network of organizations of women from the basic sectors and with different advocacies, kicked off the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, November 24, through a press conference followed by drums and protest performance at the Quezon City Memorial Read more

By Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), ago

Online Gender-based Violence in the Philippines | Our Year-end Round-up Report

As people turn to the internet for work, school, and social activities, existing inequalities are also revealed in how people access and experience digital spaces. Women still continue to face violence perpetrated with the use of information and communications technology (ICT), which shows how online spaces are part of the Read more

By Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), ago

November 25 marks International Day for the Elimination of all Forms of Violence Against Women (VAW)

Since 1991, the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence has been held every year from November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (IDEVAW), to December 10, Human Rights Day.  In the Philippines, the campaign runs until December 12. Proclamation No. 1172 declares November 25 Read more

By Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), ago

FMA submits report to UN special rapporteur on VAW

When Home Is Not Safe: FMA’s Submission on Domestic Violence During COVID-19 In June 2020, the Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA) submitted a report to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, its Causes and Consequences, documenting how the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown measures affected women experiencing violence Read more

By Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA), ago